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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 17 : London again.—characters of judges.—Oxford.—Cambridge— November and December , 1838 .—Age, 27 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Athenaeum Club , Dec. 28 , 1838 . (search)
Athenaeum Club, Dec. 28, 1838.
Again in town and in this glorious apartment, where I look upon the busts of Milton and Shakspeare, of Locke and Burke, of Bacon and Newton!
It was not long since I saw Bulwer writing here; and when he threw down the pen he had been using, the thought crossed my mind to appropriate it, and make my fortune by selling it to some of his absurd admirers in America.
But I let the goose-quill sleep.
What a different person I have just been conversing with for thr he church service is chanted.
In the afternoon I read some of the manuscripts of Burke; after dinner, there were about thirty musicians who came from Peterborough, and in the hall alternately played and sang.
Quite early the family retired; but Milton, in a distant wing of the house, had provided what he called a jollification on my account.
What passed there I could easier tell than write.
I got to bed before the cock crew.
Hunting songs and stories abounded.
I prize much all the opportun
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 18 : Stratford-on-avon.—Warwick.—London.—Characters of judges and lawyers.—authors.—society.—January , 1839 , to March , 1839 .—Age, 28 . (search)
Jan. 16, 1839.
This London is socially a bewitching place.
Last evening I first dined with Booth, a Chancery barrister; then went to Rogers's, where was a small party, —Mrs. Marcet, Mrs. Austin, Miss Martineau, Mr. and Mrs. Lyell, Mr. and Mrs. Wedgewood, Harness,
Rev. William Harness. and Milman.
We talked and drank tea, and looked at the beautiful pictures, the original editions of Milton and Spenser, and listened to the old man eloquent (I say eloquent indeed); and so the time passed.
This morning I spent chatting with Hayward about law, literature, and society; then walked with Whewell, and afterwards dined with Bellenden Ker.
H. Bellenden Ker was a conveyancer; was a friend of Lord Brougham, and passed the later years of his life at Cannes, in France, where he died, about 1870.
Sumner was his guest at dinner on different occasions, at 27 Park Road, Regent's Park. And the dinner!
it is to be spoken of always.
There was a small company: our host and his wife,—one of
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 21 : Germany .—October , 1839 , to March , 1840 .—Age, 28 -29 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 25 : service for Crawford .—The Somers Mutiny.—The nation's duty as to slavery.—1843 .—Age, 32 . (search)